Developing a Custom Task

Integration Services uses tasks to perform units of work in support of the extraction, transformation, and loading of data. Integration Services includes a variety of tasks that perform the most frequently used actions, from executing an SQL statement to downloading a file from an FTP site. If the included tasks and supported actions do not completely meet your requirements, you can create a custom task.

To create a custom task, you have to create a class that inherits from the Task base class, apply the DtsTaskAttribute attribute to your new class, and override the important methods and properties of the base class, including the Execute method.

For working samples of custom tasks, see the the Integration Services samples on Codeplex.

In This Section

This section describes how to create, configure, and code a custom task and its optional custom user interface.

• Creating a Custom Task
  Describes the first step, which is creating the custom task.

• Coding a Custom Task
  Describes how to code the principal methods of a custom task.

• Connecting to Data Sources in a Custom Task
  Describes how to connect a custom task to a data source.

• Raising and Defining Events in a Custom Task
  Describes how to raise events and define custom events from the custom task.

• Adding Support for Debugging in a Custom Task
  Describes how to create breakpoint targets in the custom task.

• Developing a User Interface for a Custom Task
  Describes how to create a user interface that shows in SSIS Designer to configure properties on the custom task.

Related Sections

Information Common to all Custom Objects

For information that is common to all the type of custom objects that you can create in Integration Services, see the following topics:

• Developing Custom Objects for Integration Services
  Describes the basic steps in implementing all kinds of custom objects for Integration Services.

• Persisting Custom Objects
  Describes custom persistence and explains when it is necessary.

• Building, Deploying, and Debugging Custom Objects
  Describes the techniques for building, signing, deploying, and debugging custom objects.

Information about Other Custom Objects

For information about the other types of custom objects that you can create in Integration Services, see the following topics:

• Developing a Custom Connection Manager
  Discusses how to program custom connection managers.

• Developing a Custom Log Provider
  Discusses how to program custom log providers.

• Developing a Custom ForEach Enumerator
  Discusses how to program custom enumerators.

• Developing a Custom Data Flow Component
  Discusses how to program custom data flow sources, transformations, and destinations.

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See Also

Reference

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